Breaking The Barriers

 

    The medical model of disability is a scientific diagnosis given to someone at some point. The medical model of disability is a matter of fact and not what people assume about the disabled. Doctors and people in the medical field focus solely on the diagnosis and how that affects the person. They don't assume that a person can or cannot do something or feel some way because they know the intricacies of the disability. On the other hand, the biopsychosocial model of disability is a more intricate way of looking at disability. Society has a bad habit of creating preconceived notions about people with disabilities even though they most likely know little to nothing about the disability someone has. The biopsychosocial model allows us to take a deep dive into the different aspects of someone's disability like culture, age, and cognition. Those are just a couple of things that the model looks into. Instead of just saying this is the disability someone has it looks further into the biological, social, and psychological effects that the diagnosis could potentially have on a patient. 

    The first thing most people think about when someone has a diability is what they could do to make it less severe or get rid of the disability. 

"I have x disability."

"Oh, that's horrible, what can you do to make it better?"

What these people don't realize is that the majority of the time they don't want to get rid of their disability or make it better, they just want to be accepted like everyone else. Just because they have disabilities doesn't mean that they need to change themselves to be "like everyone else." I think a way to make this issue better would be for disabled people to advocate for themselves and be the ones to interject in the conversation. Setting these clear boundaries with people so they will change their mindset. If I said that to someone and they immediately shot back with something along the lines of they don't want to change they are perfectly happy with the way they were, I would step back and change my perspective and the way I go about things. It is our society that puts all of these limitations on disabled people. We are the ones turning our backs on them and not giving them a fair chance to be able to create social lives. Disabled people get better chances of winning a Nobel prize or getting into an Ivy League college before they win a beauty pageant or become a pledge master for their college fraternity. That is our society putting limitations on what parts of society we are allowing them to thrive in. 

Works Cited

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